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Cover of Refiner's fire: the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl, a foundling

Refiner's fire: the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl, a foundling

✍ Scribed by Mark Helprin

Book ID
100122606
Publisher
HMH Books;Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
323 KB
Edition
1st Harvest/HBJ ed
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0156031078

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✦ Synopsis

Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. "Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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